Canada hires 48 scholars from top U.S. universities

We have lost our world standing in multiple ways. This would have been inconceivable but for the Trump administration. Canada Hires 48 Scholars Away From Top U.S. Universities www.nytimes.com/2026/08/27/w...

“I used to live in the country that I thought was the most enthusiastic about the prospects for science improving the human condition, of any country…” said Phillip Zamore, the chair of RNA Therapeutics Institute at the University of Massachusetts. “And I woke up one day & that wasn’t true anymore”

Twenty-one universities in Canada announced on Thursday the hiring of dozens of researchers to join their top academic ranks, poaching the majority of the recruits from the United States. 🧵 www.nytimes.com/2026/08/27/w...

While Trump dicks around about renaming Lake Ontario, top U.S. researchers vote with their feet and decamp for...Canada. Pathetic but clarifying. These people want to do their work in a normal country not run by a know-nothing, racist moron and his flying monkeys. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/27/w...

"Canada has awarded 64 global scholars with C$504 million ($362 million) in funding to relocate their work to Canadian universities and advance projects in areas such as health and artificial intelligence." 48 are from the US; 23 are Canadians returning home.

Canada Hires 48 Scholars Away From Top U.S. Universities A crackdown on American academia by the Trump administration has handed Canadian universities a rare opportunity to lure some top researchers north. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/27/w...

Canadian universities lure 48 brilliant U.S. scientists away... including one brilliant scientist from my own department [huge loss for us] www.nytimes.com/2026/08/27/w...

"Gift" link. The "Brain Drain" is eerily similar to 1930's Germany - when WE got Einstein. Foreboding. Disgraceful. And actually terrifying. This admin, in lockstep w/the heritage goons, has enacted generational, even multi-generational damage is a remarkably short amount of time - by design.

A crackdown on American academia by the trump admin has handed Canadian universities an opportunity to poach recruits from the U.S. Of the incoming researchers to universities in Canada, 48 will leave American campuses including Harvard, Yale and MIT.

Canada Hires 48 Scholars Away From Top U.S. Universities www.nytimes.com/2026/08/27/w... There is going to be a massive academic exodus because of this admin. This is neither theoretical nor merely academic—this is ultimately a national security issue. Ask the manhattan project.

“Their hiring is paid for through a Canadian government investment of more than 500 million Canadian dollars (about $364 million) in [strategic] research fields” “The Canada-bound brain drain from U.S. institutions began last year as the Trump administration…” Nuff said

Donald is really, really good at destruction. Good bye to an enormous advantage that US used to have. A brain drain will have devastating economic consequences. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/27/w...

Canada Hires 48 Scholars Away From Top U.S. Universities www.nytimes.com/2026/08/27/w... Hey USA. No real or imagined foreign 'hater of your freedoms' is doing as much damage to your real & imagined 'freedoms' as your President Heelspurs.

Hey Canada: Please accept these 48 small gifts as a small—but important—token of our considerable appreciation of you. We invested a lot in making them, but we’re pleased that you can put them to good use.

Great news for Canada, not so much for the U.S. The Trump war on science has consequences. 😑 @cdelawalla.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/08/27/w...